Porta-Nails 402P Porta-Nailer Manual Flooring Cleat Nailer
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Product Details
Manufacturer: Porta-NailsModel: 402
Product features:
- Portable nailer designed for tongue and groove hardwood flooring
- Quickly nails 5/8-Inch to 1-Inch tongue and groove; ram does not return until nail is seated
- Lightweight aluminum and strong heat-treated steel parts
- Includes extension handle, mallet and carry case; shoe accessory for thinner flooring available
- Backed by limited 1-year warranty
- Porta-Nails 404P Porta-Face Nailer
- Custom LeatherCraft G361 Professional Ultra-Flex Gel Kneepads
- Porta-Nails 1,000 Pack 2-Inch Nails
- Porta-Nails 42626 401 Shoe Base (3/4-Inch Flooring over 3/4-Inch Plywood over Concrete)
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Porta-Nails 402P Porta-Nailer Manual Flooring Cleat Nailer
Customer Review: Outstanding tool
Summary: 5 Stars
From the time you open this tool's case you will be impressed. The case has room enough for the face nailer shoe attachment and a couple of boxes of cleats. This American-made product is professionally well constructed. Quality craftmanship and efficiency of design are just two of the great advantages of this nailer over many other options.
Renting a pneumatic setup will cost you more that purchasing this nailer, if you rent for the amount of time you would really need. Think about it...if you are a do-it-yourself person, do you have the experience to finish the job in a day? A week? Two weeks? Purchase this nailer and you can take your time. You can move furniture around instead of emptying rooms. You can work on evenings and weekends instead of wasting precious vacation time. So unless you are experienced and/or have most of the pneumatic setup already in place, consider purchasing this nailer.
This nailer is easy to handle, and not as difficult to activate as you might think. I consistently grab the mallet toward the head (I prefer not to use gloves), and find that I can drive a cleat much more easily than swinging the entire mallet. This close-in stance also gives me greater control so that I don't end up with a wild upswing that hits furniture and walls.
This nailer is also quite safe to use compared with pneumatics. A pneumatic nailer must be handled as a loaded weapon that, given the right circumstances, can nail your shoe to the floor, or worse. I would be afraid to use such a tool when I grow tired, or around children. This manual nailer, on the other hand, is impossible to activate accidentally, and has no dangerous springs accessible that can harm anyone. I feel comfortable leaving the nailer loaded--there is absolutely no wasted prep time!
Read the instructions carefully. Little things such as placing your foot on the rear of the nailer shoe, are important. In fact, the face nailer shoe attachment, which has received a lot of bad marks, has actually worked well for me once I learned how to lean over the nailer from the side and strike straight down on it; I have not had an unintentional ding yet, although I stop nailing immediately if I feel the nailer move. I then set the cleat into the flooring using a 8d nail set. I own the cleat set, but have found it unnecessary; a regular 8d nail set works much better for me.
Never put a single cleat in the nailer, although I have often driven cleats until the nailer is empty without problems. Loading a single cleat will indeed jam the nailer. Hitting a subfloor nail would most likely jam the nailer too, but I have never hit one despite re-nailing the subfloor with flooring nails. The one jam I did experience (due to that single-cleat issue) I cleared quickly by following the instructions.
Yes, I highly recommend this nailer for any size job, even an 800 square-foot job such as mine. This tool has quickly earned respect and pride, right up there with my chisels and planes.
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